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Originally Posted by bm bradley
this is where it started costing you and me money, it's going to take 25 people to run all that shit and not one of them will have jobs other than what they can make of us...  |
OK, now here's where you fix that.
With dues!
You make union membership for everybody so that thousands of performers can join.
Don't make those SAG rules where performers have to "qualify".
If somebody wants to take a dick up their ass then they fucking qualify!
If a blind fugly street whore wants to join just in case she gets a job one day then sign her up.
And everybody pays dues based on their income.
Billy mention fixed rates set by producers and agents....no way, that will kill this
idea in 2 seconds flat for premium performers.
The agents and producers will instead agree on a union
minimum payout.
No one will work for less but anyone can work for more.
That's how it's done in the real SAG.
Those dues are used to maintain the union office, health plan, and pension funds.
The health plan and pension funds will be the motivating factor for performers
to report their income correctly and pay all dues since there will be a minimum
"earned income" to qualify for the plans.
I suggest that people who have never worked for a union avoid creating "cool rules" for
this thing. You will just fuck it up. The unions worked for years to come up with plans
that work.
Do the shit the way the shit already works! 
If you've never been in a union then please admit you don't know how they work and get help from someone who does.
I said that with the "red face" because I'm thinking about a guy I knew that took
a million dollars and tried to run a
dance club without hiring a DJ.
Nobody could explain to this smarty pants that it wouldn't work.
Even though he knew that all the other dance clubs had DJ's, he still refused to see it.
He kept providing all this logic as to why his idea would work and continued into
collapse. All he had to do to be successful was admit to himself that the night
club biz had already been figured out long ago and he should just follow it.
What a fucking idiot.
Doing things the way the real SAG does it will increase the chances of success and
if there is enough success to finally get the interest of SAG then it will be much
easier to do a merger.
A merger with SAG would be gold!
Disclaimer : do everything SAG does except the performer "qualifying standards".